The antique architect [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[11 October 1773]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 177 x 124 mm, on sheet 244 x 156 mm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773.
Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner.

Abstract:

"Portrait of a man whole length, facing three-quarter to left. Under his left arm is a large book, in his left hand a drawing instrument. His right hand is thrust under his waistcoat and under his right arm is a macaroni cane. He wears a low three-cornered hat, frilled shirt and cravat, striped breeches and a sword. On the ground is a fragment of carved classical frieze, a paper and a pair of compasses."--British Museum online catalogue.
"Probably a portrait of Robert Adam, the most celebrated of the Adam brothers. The book is perhaps intended for 'Works in Architecture' by Robert and James Adam, whose publication in folio parts began in 1773."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Architects.
Architectural drawings.
Compasses (Drawing instruments)
Daggers & swords.
Dandies--British.
Staffs (Sticks)

Topics:

Adam, Robert,--1728-1792--Caricatures and cartoons.
Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

11678515

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37169a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5166

OID:

16737739

PID:

digcoll:4711313